Volume 1

Travels through Sweden, Finland, and Lapland, to the North Cape, in the years 1798 and 1799 / By Joseph Acerbi.

  • Giuseppe Acerbi
Date:
1802
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Travels through Sweden, Finland, and Lapland, to the North Cape, in the years 1798 and 1799 / By Joseph Acerbi. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Another motive for publifhing this book was, a defire of being ufeful to future travellers, whom ardent curiofity might impel to vifit the northern diftri¢ts. Thofe parts of Europe, which are, I may fay, almoft abandoned by nature, are little known, and any information concerning them mutt of courfe be acceptable. Fafhion, which extends its influence over every thing, appears, in our day, to favour travels and expeditions to the North: and the prevalence of this may, perhaps, have been increafed by the political troubles in the South of Europe. Lie dece this may be, fuch as travel to thofe-quarters are entitled to a degree of regard and efteem which cannot juftly be claimed by thofe who vifit the South of Europe: for the hardy North does not by any means hold out the fame luxuries, the fame allurements of cli- mate, and the fame temptations to pleafure that are prefented by a more genial and inviting foil. Journeys in the North will be undertaken by thofe only who have a juft and mafculine tafte for nature, under every afpect, and are actuated by a defire of en- larging their own information, and of inftructing others. With this view the Author, having reached the North Cape by a route before confidered as impraéticable in fummer, has pub- lifhed
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